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OpenOffice 3.1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-a-strange-topic-icon dept.

harmonise writes "OpenOffice 3.1 has been released. According to the release announcement, this update received 'The biggest single change (half a million lines of code!) and the most visible is the major revamp of OpenOffice.org on-screen graphics.' See the OpenOffice 3.1 New Features page for a full list of changes."

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  1. Will be include in F11 by levell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fedora 11, which is due to be released in about 3 weeks, will have OO3.1

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    1. Re:Will be include in F11 by Kaeso · · Score: 4, Informative

      Arch has had it since yesterday: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/openoffice-base/

  2. Re:.5 million lines of code by gurutc · · Score: 4, Informative

    So far the product (update) does seem to work great. Better than the previous version. I use the Calc program a lot, and it seems faster on some basic functions like loading files with forumulas.

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  3. Re:antialiased! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The new anti-aliasing feature is on the graphics (charts, etc). The text in writer has been anti-aliased for years, ass.

  4. Re:Word count by rs232 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet?"

    I don't know, but if you msg the developers I'm sure they would give it full attention. I see here that someone in 2006 wrote a Macro to perform such a task.

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  5. Re:Oracle? by segfaultcoredump · · Score: 4, Informative

    Technically, at this time oracle does not own sun.

    They have announced that they will purchase them and the sale is pending, but until that time the two companies are totally independent and functionally must continue to operate as such.

    So sometime this summer the oracle logo will be correct, but currently it is wrong.

  6. Re:Won't download to my mac... by gibbsjoh · · Score: 4, Informative

    I checked the full file list from the path to the Windows download and the Mac version isn't there yet - just the SDK. Checking the mirrors now.

    http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net/pub/openoffice/stable/3.1.0/

    JG

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  7. Re:Sorry but... by thedonger · · Score: 4, Informative

    MS Office/Excel won't open two files of the same name, and insists on only one working window, forcing the user to "split" in order to compare spreadsheets. OO Calc does both.

    OO Writer has a button for generating PDFs sans any Adobe integration.

    The advantage to MS Office is that your client is more than likely authoring documents on an MS Office product, and absolute compatibility is not assured. But I don't fault the OO developers for that.

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  8. Re:Most important question by master811 · · Score: 4, Informative

    FYI ODF 1.2 still hasn't even been finalised yet, so you can't really blame Microsoft for not yet implementing it until its finished.